Founded, furnished and eventually forgotten – this has been the fate of many cities since ancient times. A few names have stayed alive in legend and literature while others disappeared completely – ...

There’s something magnetic about lost cities. They hold that perfect mix of mystery and possibility, that whisper of what once was and what might still be hidden. These aren’t just ruins or forgotten ...

Scientists reveal strong physical evidence for an ancient lost city in Spain, offering fresh insight into a vanished ...

The Yale Art Gallery holds some treasures from an ancient city in Syria, where many religions flourished side by side, including a new one called Christianity. The city was attacked, abandoned, and ...

Erosion—caused by the North Sea's relentless pounding of England's east coast—had all but consumed Dunwich by 1750. Newscom Beneath the slate-gray surface of the North Sea, about a half-mile off ...

The world's biggest religious complex, some four times the size of Vatican City, is Cambodia's Angkor Wat, built in 1150 but long lost to history. Archaeological work since the 19th century has ...